Researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine found higher blood pressure and pesticide exposures in children associated with a heightened pesticide spraying period around the Mother’s Day flower harvest. This study involved... 22-May-2019 3:05 PM EDT Add to Favorites

Neonatal exposure to nicotine alters the reward circuity in the brains of newborn mice, increasing their preference for the drug in later adulthood, report researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine in a published study. 21-May-2019 3:05 PM EDT Add to Favorites

University of California San Diego School of Medicine research expands and deepens the association between clinical depression and pain, identifying specific regions of the brain that drive, influence and moderate depressive mood and its... 21-May-2019 2:05 PM EDT Add to Favorites

UC San Diego researchers discover new role for epidermal growth factor receptor in blood stem cell development, a crucial key to being able to generate them in the laboratory, and circumvent the need for bone marrow donation. 20-May-2019 12:05 PM EDT Add to Favorites

In its first-ever assessment of biomedical institutions around the world, based upon published research in a targeted set of high-quality scientific journals, the 2019 Nature Index ranked University of California San Diego ninth among the top 200... 16-May-2019 2:05 PM EDT Add to Favorites

A recent study by researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine, San Diego State University and the Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology found that the age and sex of an individual strongly influences the bacterial... 14-May-2019 6:05 PM EDT Add to Favorites

UC San Diego Health opens a state-of-the-art unit to treat seniors requiring emergency health care. The Gary and Mary West Emergency Department at UC San Diego Health in La Jolla is the first in California to treat qualifying patients over the age...10-Jan-2019 1:05 PM EST

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The clinical enterprise, UC San Diego Health, is the region's only academic health system, ranked No. 1 in San Diego for six consecutive years by U.S. News & World Report. Its major facilities include UC San Diego Medical Center in Hillcrest and Thornton Hospital, Moores Cancer Center, Shiley Eye Institute, Sulpizio Cardiovascular Center, Altman Clinical and Translational Research Institute, and Jacobs Medical Center (opening in 2016), all in La Jolla, as well as other primary and specialty practices located throughout Southern California. For more information, visit health.ucsd.edu.

The academic enterprise consists of two professional schools, in medicine and pharmaceutical sciences. Established in 1968, UC San Diego School of Medicine is the youngest of the nation’s best medical schools, consistently rankedamong the top research-intensive programs in the country by U.S. News & World Report. Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, founded in 2002, is the second public school of pharmacy in California and has more than 30 drug discovery laboratories. The two professional schools currently rank sixth in the nation in total National Institutes of Health funding. As part of the 10-campus University of California system, UC San Diego, founded in1960, is renowned for collaborative, cross-disciplinary research that transcends traditional boundaries in science, engineering and the humanities. For more information, visit healthsciences.ucsd.edu.